Gratitude

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude. Charles Spurgeon

On March 31, 2019, I closed the PR firm that bore my name for 28 years. As head of the first PR firm in the country to work exclusively with faith-based organizations and causes, I was privileged to occupy a front-row seat to nearly three decades of evangelical history.

Closing the business I loved and saying goodbye to my professional family and clients has filled me with a range of emotions, but none more profound than gratitude. Indeed, it seems I spent much of the beginning of this year saying thank you—thank you to clients, team members, vendors, reporters, advisors and friends across the country.

Throughout my career I have been struck by the image of a turtle on a fencepost and what it represents. If you see a turtle on a fencepost, you know it didn't get there by itself—someone put it there. Well, I didn't get here by myself either—I was placed here by people who believed in me, encouraged me, worked for me, hired me, recommended me, counseled and advised me. For those people I will forever be thankful and grateful.

I didn't close my firm because I don’t like PR anymore; I closed it because after spending exactly half my life running an agency and being just two years removed from cancer treatment, I decided I didn't want to own and manage a firm any longer. So, while I have retired from the DeMoss firm, I am not retiring from Kingdom involvement. After enjoying a sabbatical—something I provided my employees every five years but never took myself—I will decide what my next chapter will look like.